Add to that my service as a Springfield Police Commissioner and a ward political party leader, 20 years in an earned professorship at Westfield State University and service as Chairperson of the Department of Economics and Management, my education at Boston University as an engineer and later an MBA from Western New England College, my licenses as a Certified Public Accountant, a Massachusetts Construction Supervisor and Massachusetts Justice of the Peace, my experience in rehabbing historic residential and commercial buildings, my solo practice in taxation, my leadership as Executive Director of the Springfield Parking Authority, and most importantly my love of being a Springfield storyteller; I write now from those experiences.  

I have always written but alas only to the narrow constraints of business and law; certainly often much more long-winded and with far less interesting turns of events. Now I write from the love of plot – of people and their ways – of life – of philosophy – about crime – about the sociopath/psychopath.”

Kathleen is the winner of the 2020 American Fiction Awards in the Mystery/Suspense: Procedurals category for her 3rd novel Mary Lou: Oh, What Did She Do?